best set-up to preview video (TV or Computer Monitor)…

[Sada]

Your best bet is to get a broadcast monitor—-You can run it using firewire through a camera that supports passthru, or better yet, your tape deck. Of course, you should calibrate your broadcast monitor.

[Doug Graham]

“However, How do I know that the video I’m seeing on the preview monitor is actually what my finished video is going to look like on a TV screen?”

You don’t, and it probably isn’t. Most computer monitors display video much darker than it will look on a TV.

“Is it better to have a TV hooked into your system?”

Yes, it’s essential.

“Could I preview my editing on a TV monitor and still us my dual computer LCD monitors for my work space?”

Yes. Keep your camcorder or DV deck connected to your computer via Firewire. Hook the TV to that. Vegas can switch back and forth from its preview window to your TV at the click of a mouse.

[John Frey]

Actually, Vegas 7 allows you to preview on your computer monitor and on your external composite monitor at the same time!

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[Terry Esslinger]

AS stated by the others it is possible via the firewire. However what I found was that once you add an Fx to s scene it defaults to the computer and does not preview on the TV. This is kind of self defeating as it would be nice to see what the changes would look like (ala the split screen on the computer preview) on the TV without having to render the scene (or more likely part of the scene).

[Edward Troxel]

[Terry Esslinger] “However what I found was that once you add an Fx to s scene it defaults to the computer and does not preview on the TV. This is kind of self defeating as it would be nice to see what the changes would look like (ala the split screen on the computer preview) on the TV without having to render the scene (or more likely part of the scene).”

You can. Go to Options – Preference to the External Preview tab. It sounds like you have UNCHECKED the “Recompress edited frames” box. Check it again and your preview should once again work once effects are added.

Edward Troxel

[Jerry Neal]

Thanks to Everyone for the information… I’m still a bit confused on how to hook a TV into my system. Some of you mentioned running it through my Camera (firewire/pass through). I will give this a try. However, right now I lease all my cameras from a large AV company here in CO. Therefore, I don’t always have access to a camera while I am editing. I have been holding off purchasing my own DV cam, as I will probably get a HD model in the upcoming year. Is the S-Video out on my video card a viable way to conncect to a TV? Or, would this not be effective?

Thanks,

Jerry

[Jeremy Rochefort]

You have a couple of options open to you.

One would be a ADVC110 from canopus for DV work (got firewire input from PC to a RGB or S/video output) or if you do plan to go HD, a AJA card or Blackmagic card for ingesting

Jeremy

MJ Productions

[Larry Watts]

Is this just composite or is it rue with S-Video?

And is this just true with version 7 only?

Thanks

Larry

[Terry Esslinger]

Edward,
That was the problem. Once again I thank you.